Elva+Lozada

SUMMARY: Elva Lozada, age 27, died April 9, 1964 after a legal abortion performed in a California hospital.

Elva H. Lozada is listed on the Life Dynamics "Tombstone Project" poster as having died in California from a legal abortion in 1964. I have nothing in my notes that matches this woman, and Life Dynamics currently has nothing about her on their web site.

At that time, legal abortions were permitted in California hospitals for maternal health indications.

A web search reveals that Elva died on April 9, 1964 in Los Angeles. She was just short of her 28th birthday.

In the 1960s, we see the 20th Century downward trend in abortion mortality resumed -- until a brief upturn starting in 1968, when some states first started loosening their abortion laws. For more, see [|Abortion Deaths in the 1960's].

For more on pre-legalization abortion, see [|The Bad Old Days of Abortion]

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